REFLECTIVE THOUGHTS Copyright © 1996 Jeff Linder
Wind Walker

Those who are seeking the light are blessed indeed. The physical binds of the human physicality make it very difficult at times to see through the trappings of the illusion. But HEY! If it was easy to begin, and to just step into the light, what of the lessons we came here to learn? For some spirits the path may be a very simple and straight road to enlightenment, but for by far the majority, the path is always just slightly out of focus.

How then do we find our way ? Perhaps if we could remember that the God within us all will help. All we have to do is to be honest with ourselves, truely be willing to follow the path no matter how difficult it may seem, and simply trust in our inner spirit.

Probably the first step is to be able to unconditionally love yourself. You must not be angry with yourself for your failings and mistakes, but rather embrace them, and learn from them. For everything that we do and say has a purpose. Many times understanding what that purpose is and why it happened is a difficult undertaking. When you decide that you are indeed worthy of being loved by yourself, only then can you truely love and be loved by others to the fullest degree.

I, myself, have recently gone through a 'cleansing' process of some, but not all of my life's events. It is, and again, it isn't, a simple process. During my 'quiet time', I have brought back into focus some of the events that I haven't liked about myself from the past. I try to examine them from the 'side'. I looked at the reasons, the results, the actions, the word, the reprecussions, the total view of the incident, and not try to judge it as being a 'good' thing or a 'bad' thing, but just realize that it indeed it occurred. Then, after looking at it from all sides, simply release it. LET IT GO ! It sounds easier than it is. If an event happened to be one that I have felt guilty about, it is very difficult to view all of the sides without getting 'involved' with the event again. On the other hand, if the event was one in which I was 'proud' of, I find it difficult to release because of ego or pride or whatever. Some people that I have talked to use different visiualizations to release them, some wrap them in colored paper, some put them in garbage bags, and other set them on fire. Try whatever may work for you. There is no one or right way to do it. While you are releasing an event, remember this if nothing else, "TRUTH HAS NO RIGHTS OR WRONGS, IT IS SIMPLY TRUTH."

In going through this process, I have just begun to discover that with each of those events that I have examined and released, I feel more balanced within and that with each cleansing, I feel more "whole", more "total", and stronger in the spirit. God can forgive us anything, if only we can forgive ourselves.

I have not forgotten the events I have cleansed from my mind, they are still there, but all of the worry about them is gone. They were only a part of the "ME" I'm working on. They were only lessons to be learned in this school called "LIFE". I have let many of them go, I have still many to release, and I try to go onward on my path each day.



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